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Where frontier teams find builders before everyone else.

Aurora automates the sourcing, outreach, and screening, then sends you intros to engineers worth meeting. Fewer hours per hire, sharper matches, better results.

Engineering roles at venture backed startups, mostly in the US.

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The builders we place have worked and studied at

MetaAppleMicrosoftFigmaPlaidJohnson & JohnsonCarnegie MellonUC BerkeleyGeorgia TechUCLA
The system

One pipeline, running end to end.

Identifying, reaching out, screening, matching: every step runs through our own software. That is how we move faster and keep quality high.

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Identify matches

We map the networks your next hire will come from and score every profile against your stage, stack, and role.

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Reach out, automatically

Personalized outreach goes out at scale through our own tooling, so no strong candidate slips by.

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Select the interested

We focus only on people who are genuinely open and a real fit, so you never wade through maybes.

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Interview and intro

We interview, learn what they want, and intro them to the roles where they will have the strongest impact.

Talent Infrastructure

The advantages of treating recruiting as an engineering problem, compounding into faster, sharper, cheaper hires.

Automated sourcing & screening

Software does the first pass on every profile, so we surface signal instead of scrolling résumés. Fewer hours per candidate, sharper matches.

Preferences-backed matching

We only intro people who genuinely want to build what you're building.

Fewer, better candidates

Intros only to people who fit your stage, stack, and problem, never a firehose of maybes.

Humans where it counts

Technology handles the volume. We spend our human time on judgment, context, and closing the people you want.

We match on intent, not just skill.

What predicts a great startup hire is what someone wants.

Genuinely interested in your mission

The starting point: people who actually want to build what you're building, not just any job that pays. Our proprietary data reads real intent, so every intro is warm from day one.

High expected tenure

We screen for people who plan to stay and go deep, not résumé-hoppers looking for a twelve-month stop on the way to the next thing.

An ownership mindset

Builders who own outcomes end to end, never consultancy-style ticket-takers who hand off the hard part and move on.

Ready to put in the hours

9-to-9, six days a week doesn't scare the people we send. If your team runs hot in a crunch, so do they.

On-site by default

The new AI-native standard. We surface people who want to be in the room shipping together, not negotiating for remote.

Upside over safety

Founder's mentality: candidates who bet on the company and value equity and impact over a big-company salary.

Examples from our network.

Jua.ai
Research Standout

Senior AI Researcher

Jua.ai

$27M raised; trained >1B-param weather models for energy trading.

NNAISENSE
Before

Co-founder / Director of AGI

NNAISENSE

$20.1M raised; acquired by ACATIS in 2025, exit amount undisclosed.

Utrecht University
Studied

PhD Artificial Intelligence

Utrecht University

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Achievement

AGI Author + WEF Speaker

Springer / World Economic Forum

Co-authored AGI book; WEF 2024 speaker; FLI $200K grant laureate.

Meta
Machine LearningNow

Staff ML Engineer

Meta

Develops ML models for Instagram post analysis and profile credibility.

Johnson & Johnson / Verb Surgical
Before

Staff Deep Learning Engineer

Johnson & Johnson / Verb Surgical

Built patented deep learning systems for surgical video understanding.

UC Berkeley
Studied

M.S. Operations Research

UC Berkeley

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Achievement

23 Publications, 8 Patents

Medical AI / Robotics

Published extensively and patented multiple surgical AI systems.

Apple via Ryzen Solutions
Computer VisionNow

AI/ML Consultant

Apple via Ryzen Solutions

Led production 3D vision and pose estimation systems adopted in Apple workflows.

Carnegie Mellon Robotics Institute
Before

Research Assistant

Carnegie Mellon Robotics Institute

Built point-cloud registration and vision systems later deployed in Apple Daisy.

Carnegie Mellon University
Studied

Graduate Robotics Research

Carnegie Mellon University

Apple / CMU
Achievement

Apple Daisy Deployment

Apple / CMU

Research achieved 98.6% accuracy and was deployed in Apple’s recycling robot.

Retell AI
AINow

Infrastructure Engineer

Retell AI

YC-backed, $4.6M Seed; building infra for AI voice agents.

Oracle
Before

Software Engineer II

Oracle

Owns Raft replication infra for Oracle Globally Distributed Database.

Georgia Tech
Studied

M.S. Computer Science, AI

Georgia Tech

Cornell / Georgia Tech
Achievement

VLDB + Learning at Scale

Cornell / Georgia Tech

Published systems/AI research at VLDB 2023 and Learning at Scale 2026.

Seed-stage AI SRE startup
ResearchNow

AI Research Engineer

Seed-stage AI SRE startup

Built AI incident investigation agents, memory, skills, alert grouping, and GitHub workflows.

Microsoft
Before

Software Engineer Intern

Microsoft

Built C++/WinRT infrastructure for Cloud PC and Local PC bitmap transfer.

Georgia Tech
Studied

M.S. Computer Science

Georgia Tech

Government of India
Achievement

Top 0.05% IIT JEE

Government of India

Ranked top 0.05% among 1.1M+ candidates; ISI entrance All India Rank 14.

Meta
SoftwareNow

Senior Software Engineer

Meta

Owns Horizon OS app management across device, mobile app, and backend.

Microsoft
Before

Software Engineer II

Microsoft

Built Azure Orbital infra tooling adopted by 100+ engineers.

Appalachian State University
Studied

B.S. Computer Science

Appalachian State University

Plaid
InfrastructureNow

Software Engineering Intern

Plaid

Building Go/Kubernetes networking infra serving 8,000+ financial institutions.

Figma
Before

Software Engineering Intern

Figma

Built FigJam ERD features and ChatGPT integration used by millions of users.

UCLA
Studied

B.S./M.S. Computer Science

UCLA

TaxGPT
ResearchNow

Research Scientist

TaxGPT

YC-backed, $4.6M Seed; 4th eng hire building AI tax agents.

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Before

Machine Learning Intern

Womp Labs

Researched model-agnostic data attribution for CV and NLP workloads.

Minerva University
Studied

B.Sc. Computer Science: Data Science

Minerva University

Engineers, for startups. That's all we do.

We go deep on a small number of technical roles instead of recruiting for everything. Each has its own playbook.

Pricing

A percentage of the hire. Nothing hidden.

Two ways to work with us. Retainer is where we do our best work and where most teams start.

Most teams start here

Retainer

12–25%of salary

20% upfront, credited against the final fee.

  • Prioritized, dedicated search
  • Priced by search complexity
  • Best outcomes and speed

Contingency

15–30%of salary

No upfront. You pay only when you hire.

  • Only pay when you hire
  • Higher rate for the added risk
  • Good for exploratory searches

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